Discover the most exciting space events and missions in 2025, from meteor showers to groundbreaking lunar explorations and ...

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace ...

In one final hurrah, the BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury and captured extraordinary close-up images of the planet ...

In its response, ChatGPT used the word “isolated” a lot, which then led to me expanding the discussion to what point humanity ...

On January 8, 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its sixth flyby of Mercury, flying just 295 km above the ...

Stevenage-built BepiColombo makes final flyby of Mercury ahead of entering the plant's orbit in 2026.

From a total lunar eclipse to meteor showers to space probes, 2025 will be stellar for celestial viewing. Those and more will ...

The Parker Solar Probe broke its record by flying closer to the sun than ever before, reaching a distance of just 3.8 million ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa.

A flyby, or gravity assist, is when a spacecraft passes close enough to a planet or moon to ... ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons ...